Marc-André Brideau
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Marc-André Brideau
@mabrideau.bsky.social
Engineering geologist specializing in landslide hazard. Based in Victoria British Columbia.
Natural Resources Canada has released a national scale maps of active deformation processes based on 2017-2024 Sentinel-1 InSAR data. For best results download the images, load them up in your fav GIS software, and watch out many hours will be spent checking out features you always wondered about.
October 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Only six days left to submit an abstract to Geohazards 9 which will take place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada next June.
www.geohazards9.ca
Geohazards 9
Welcome to the 9th installment of the Canadian Conference on Geotechnique and Natural Hazards.  Since the inception for the series in 1992, applied earth science practitioners from across Canada have ...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The 17 December 2024 Takhini River landslide and river-ice tsunami in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada highlights the role of progressive failure in frozen materials.
eos.org/thelandslide...
October 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Had a great day in the field yesterday. Between Woss and Zeballos on Vancouver Island.
October 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Over the last three years, @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social, @geocron.bsky.social, me, and twelve colleagues have been compiling a Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database. Version 12 is now available and contains 25,500 entries.
zenodo.org/records/1721...
September 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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IT’S ALIVE! The Glossary of Permafrost Science and Engineering is released and available to all for free! Spread the news! You can download it here: canadianpermafrostassociation.ca/glossary-of-...
September 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
You can now submit your abstract for the Geohazards 9 conference next June in Edmonton Alberta
www.geohazards9.ca/call-for-abs...
Submit | Geohazards 9
www.geohazards9.ca
July 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Interesting landslide landscape visible in the newly available 2024 lidar along the Fraser River. Lidar from lidar.gov.bc.ca/pages/downlo...
Landslide outlines from www.frdr-dfdr.ca/repo/dataset...
Landslide points from zenodo.org/records/1529...
July 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
the new Landslide Mapping Guidelines from Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia are now available. A useful document for geohazard practitioners in British Columbia (and beyond).
tools.egbc.ca/Registrants/...
tools.egbc.ca
July 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Derek Cronmiller of the Yukon Geological Survey has provided a stunning set of the images of the fascinating recent failure that partially blocked the Yukon River. This is a textbook example of a complex rotational landslide:-
eos.org/thelandslide...
June 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A landslide in quick (sensitive) clay in central Québec this week as been featured in the news.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Lidar and previous landslide inventory support the statement in the news report that landslides have occurred in the area before.
May 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I am pleased to report that we are now accepting abstracts for the 11th International Conference on #Geomorphology in Christchurch New Zealand in February 2026. #geoscience #hazards #rivers #tectonics #glaciers #coasts #landslides

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www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/call...
Call For Abstracts - 2026 IAG International Conference on Geomorphology
Call for Abstracts Abstract Submissions Now Open! Click the button to the right to begin your abstract submission. SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE Abstract
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February 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Very interesting new paper by former colleagues Carie-Ann Hancock and Kyle Wlodarczyk on the role of wildfires and forest harvesting on geohazards and channel stability during the November 2021 atmospheric river in SW British Columbia, Canada. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The role of wildfires and forest harvesting on geohazards and channel instability during the November 2021 atmospheric river in southwestern British Columbia, Canada
During the November 2021 atmospheric river in British Columbia, Canada, hundreds of landslides were triggered. We found that geohazards occurred more frequently in wildfire burned areas and along for...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The next Canadian Geohazards Conference will be June 1-3, 2026 in Edmonton Alberta. You can register for updates at geohazards9.ca
GeoHazards 9
June 1-3, 2026 Edmonton, Alberta
geohazards9.ca
January 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Reposted by Marc-André Brideau
Brienz has just been evacuated for the second time. The decision is based, among other things, on thousands of simulations that ETH professor Jordan Aaron has produced using a computer model he developed. In an interview with ETH News, he explains why this model was used.
“We needed to know how far and how fast the event could travel”
Brienz has just been evacuated for the second time. The decision is based, among other things, on thousands of simulations that ETH professor Jordan Aaron has produced using a computer model he develo...
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December 13, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Really interesting article and radio interview about landslide early warning systems in British Columbia and Alaska. Featuring the work by @volcancanuck.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...
Microphones and rain buckets are being used to help detect landslides before they happen | CBC Radio
Scientists say giving people hours, or even a few minutes, of early warning has grown in importance, as climate change makes natural disasters more common and dangerous than ever before.
www.cbc.ca
December 8, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Pretty scenery this morning in Selbu, Trøndelag county, Norway
December 3, 2024 at 9:34 AM
If you are a professional geoscientist or engineering in British Columbia, Canada, there is a new Artificial Intelligence Practice Advisory from EGBC.
www.egbc.ca/News/Article...
New Practice Advisory on AI
www.egbc.ca
December 2, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Great new resources on slope stability published by the New Zealand Geotechnical Society
www.nzgs.org/libraries/sl...
Slope Stability Guidance Units - New Zealand Geotechnical Society
Unit 1 – General Guidance New Zealand is highly vulnerable to natural hazard risks, as evidenced by earthquakes and storm events over recent decades.  Landslides form a significant part of the natural...
www.nzgs.org
November 27, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Reposted by Marc-André Brideau
Hearing #bchwy7 is blocked by a rock slide by Haig Scale. #hopebc #agassiz
November 15, 2024 at 3:37 AM
One of the most impressive landslide landscape in British Columbia Canada is near Pinaus Lake (9km south of small community of Falkland). The geology consists dominantly trachyandesite and breccia flows with some shale, sandstone, conglomerate units.
November 10, 2024 at 2:30 PM
I had the chance to attend GeoMontreal 2024 (Canadian Geotechnical Society Conference) last week in Montreal.
My co-authors and I got to present two papers on our recent work on landslides in Whitehorse, Yukon.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The Whitehorse Escarpment -Preliminary Landslide Risk Assessment
PDF | Downtown Whitehorse, Yukon is located at the base of a 50 to 60 metre high glaciolacustrine terrace (the Escarpment). At least 22 landslides were... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
September 25, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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LiDAR difference map of the #ChilcotinLandslide, flown by Brian Menounos and @hakaiinstitute.bsky.social system shows about 6x10^6 m3 of change. Will be very interesting to see how this is incised as the flood begins in the coming days.
August 4, 2024 at 9:31 PM
I saw an interesting bank erosion protection structure yesterday where tree root mat stumps were lashed and bolted together in a creek bend just before road culverts. It was a new one for me.
July 27, 2024 at 4:04 PM